What's included in the Compare Groups by Matching PowerPoint and why is it useful?

Year 1 Compare Groups by Matching Teaching PowerPoint (PPT) is designed to help you teach counting to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with zero or 1, or from any given number in small steps before pupils move on to the linked tasks. The slideshow is comprehensive and helps you to teach the step in its entirety, prompting moments to assess understanding, address misconceptions and move children onto independent tasks.

Each PowerPoint has been carefully designed, along with the Varied Fluency, Reasoning and Problem Solving worksheets, Practical Activities and Continuous Provision resources to help you guide children on their own journey and ensure progress for every child, not just the average child.

Our Adult-Led Practical Activities resource can also be used alongside or instead of the Teaching PowerPoint. This teacher-led resource is designed to be used as part of the main teaching input, and features question opportunities that are designed to be adaptable with Support, Core and Stretch question prompts.

How do our Adaptive Maths PowerPoint resources work?

Our Adaptive Maths PowerPoint slideshow resources work best alongside our other resources for Compare Groups by Matching. The PowerPoint walks you through the whole lesson in a structured way, allowing each child to make progress.

Each PowerPoint follows this structure:

Initial slides (Foundations to Key Vocabulary)

• Foundations - Places the lesson within the wider learning sequence, helping pupils connect new content to what they already know.

• Maths in the Real World - Shows pupils where the maths appears beyond the lesson, helping them understand why the concept is useful and worth learning.

• What Do You Notice? - Gives pupils an early opportunity to contribute, notice patterns and experience success, while helping the teacher check initial thinking and possible misconceptions.

• Prior Learning - Revisits the essential knowledge pupils need to access the lesson, helping the teacher identify and address gaps before moving on.

• Key Vocabulary and Key Facts - Introduces the language, facts and rules pupils need so they can focus on the new learning.

Main Teaching

• Teaches the concept explicitly through worked examples.

• Questions are introduced in the same style that pupils will encounter in the lesson’s tasks, helping pupils move from guided practice towards independent practice.

Varied Fluency

• The Varied Fluency slides guide pupils through questions as a class, in the same style as on the Varied Fluency worksheet.

• You can consolidate this fluency flexibly through your Continuous Provision.

• The questions match the content in the Practical Activities resource.

Reasoning and Problem Solving and Deeper Reasoning Real Life Problem

• Once pupils have completed the appropriate fluency work, or shown fluency in this area, move them on to Reasoning and Problem Solving.

• All pupils should have opportunities to reason, solve problems, explain their thinking and justify their answers.

• Children can deepen and apply their understanding within the Continuous Provision.

• A Real Life Problem is available for pupils on the final slide of the PowerPoint, to make a meaningful connection to the maths concept Compare Groups by Matching.

• This Real Life Problem provides opportunities for deeper discussion and more complex discussion.

Key Vocabulary in Year 1 Compare Groups by Matching

match: Put one object with one object from another group.

enough: There are enough when every object has a match, with none left over.

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